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Unknown Man #89
A Safe Bet: When you're in the mood for an Elmore Leonard book, I recommend reading this one. It definately satisfies, because, A: it's a page turner, and B: the characters are top-notch and the setting is Detroit (mostly). Why do we read Elmore Leonard? [... more]
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Mr. Paradise: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: It's a dubious proposition from the outset, destined to lead to trouble: Chloe Robinette, a high-end former Detroit call girl, asks her lingerie model roommate, Kelly Barr, to help her entertain a wealthy octogenarian trial lawyer [... more]
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When the Women Come Out to Dance: Stories (Leonard, Elmore)
Amazon.com Review: What a treat! The nine stories in this collection--some never before published, others available only in anthologies or magazines-- demonstrate why Elmore Leonard has achieved both bestsellerdom and critical acclaim. Ranging in length [... more]
$24.95
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52 Pickup
Well Written, but the Story Falls Apart in the Second Half: 52 PICK UP is, like all of Elmore Leonard's novels, very well written. This book was originally written in the early 1970s, but holds up very well. With a few minor adjustments, it could take [... more]
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Gold Coast
good premise, weak ending: Like many Leonard novels, this one had a great beginning, great introduction of characters, etc. but it just fumbles apart by the end. There's so much pointless and confusing plotting in the last 50 pages that I got tired of [... more]
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Pronto
Amazon.com Review: In the world of Elmore Leonard novels, cops and criminals get by with a grudging respect for each other's capabilities: Harry had been arrested by Buck Torres a half-dozen times or so; they knew each other pretty well and were friends. [... more]
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Out of Sight
Amazon.com Review: When Jack Foley, a career bank robber, surfaces after tunneling out of a medium-security penitentiary in Florida, he comes face to face with Karen Sisco, a beautiful federal marshal. Though the barrel of her shotgun is pointed right at [... more]
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Tishomingo Blues CD
Amazon.com Review: Take a high diver who witnesses a murder from his perch 80 feet above a Mississippi casino. Add a cooler-than-thou con artist from Detroit who's out to take over the Dixie mafia's lucrative Gulf Coast drug business. Throw in a crooked [... more]
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Escape from Five Shadows
If You Don't succeed At First: Leonard is a great writer, I love his stories. At times you have to pay very close attention to what he is saying or you might get lost. Leonard is not the type of writer to tell you over and over again what he wants to [... more]
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Rum Punch
Amazon.com Review: Readers who come to Rum Punch after having seen Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film adaptation, Jackie Brown, are in for a few surprises. Mainly, Jackie Burke is a 44-year-old white woman (but just as hard-boiled as Pam Grier), bail bondsman [... more]
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The Switch
Uninspired, Formulaic: I really like Elmore Leonard and have enjoyed and respected much of his work. But when reading this book I felt that Elmore had really mailed it in this time. The big "surprise" ending comes as no surprise, and the book [... more]
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Maximum Bob
not as good as the short-lived TV show: I picked this up after watching Beau Bridges play Maximum Bob in the short-lived TV series, which had amazing razor sharp wit, and subtle irony. It is a sorry statement about the intelligence of TV viewers that it [... more]
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